Cryptonomicon

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Been thinking about picking this one up.  So how would you all rate the
prose on a scale of 1 to 10...where Dan Brown = 1?

On 1/4/07, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> I'd call it standard sci-fi writing: interesting ideas presented in
> bland-to-bad style.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>
> >
> >I couldn't get even half-way through Cryptonomicon because the writing
> >was so pedestrian that it was almost painful.  And except for the very
> >superficially common subject matter parallels (spies, math & crypto &
> >WW2- which must be also in any number of other books) I see no Pynchon
> >rip-off or homage.
> >
> >
>
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